Out of the Ashes

Rebuilding American Culture

Anthony Esolen

• Publisher: Regnery
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781621575146
• eBook ISBN: 9781621575696
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Conservatism & Liberalism

"Out of the Ashes is a full-throated, stout-hearted call to arms—soul-stirring, uncompromising, and irresistible." —ROD DREHER, author of The Benedict Option "Out of the Ashes is an astonishing combination of energy, humor, insight, and exceptional erudition, topped off by a vivid personal style and a special gift for tweaking the nose of secularist nonsense-peddlers. If you're looking for a guide to our current cultural predicament (and how to fix it), one that's sobering and invigorating at the same time, start with this book." —CHARLES J. CHAPUT, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia "Anthony Esolen is one of our nation's best writers because he's one of our best thinkers. Out of the Ashes is vintage Esolen: eloquent, bold, insightful, profound." — RYAN T. ANDERSON, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation, and author of Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and ReligiousFreedom What do you do when an entire civilization is crumbling around you? You do everything. This is a book about how to get started. The Left's culture war threatens America's foundation and its very civilization, warns Esolen in his brand new book, Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture. They will tell you that babies in the womb are fetuses, that gender is a social construct, and that the backbone of society is government not the community. In Out of the Ashes, Esolen outlines his surprisingly simple plan to take back American culture— start at home. Esolen urges us to demand a return to values in our homes, our schools, our churches, and our communities, and to reject political correctness. "We must become tellers of truth again—and people who are willing to hear truths, especially when it hurts to hear them."

Index

A

Adam, 13–14, 95, 116, 130

Anne of Green Gables, 49

apprentice, apprenticeship, 100, 103, 141–42

Aquinas, Thomas, 36, 73, 83, 87–88, 102

architecture, 35–36, 55, 102

Aristotle, 67, 87, 102, 170–71, 176, 190

art, 4, 7, 13, 28–30, 34–36, 38–40, 43–46, 51, 53, 69, 75, 77–79, 82–83, 85–86, 101, 108, 137–38, 142, 144–45, 161, 179, 190–91

artists, 29, 47, 78, 100–2, 140

As You Like It, 67, 111, 120

Athens, 4, 169, 171

B

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 39, 43–44, 86

barbarians, 169–70, 173

baseball, 3, 8–9, 37, 46–47, 57–58, 105, 109, 135, 140–41, 154, 160, 177, 192

beauty, 28, 36–38, 40, 43, 53–56, 74–75, 78, 88, 96, 98, 110–11, 115–16, 130, 134, 137, 144, 146, 151, 180, 188, 192

Beauvoir, Simone de, 124

Bleak House, 123

Bostonians, The, 110, 115

Boswell, Joseph, 21

brotherhood, 106, 108–9

Bunyan, John, 70, 181–82

Buonarroti, Michelangelo, 29, 100, 103, 142, 190

C

Canada, 43, 62, 64, 137, 160, 163

cant, 21–22, 47

Cape Cod, 25–26

cathedrals, 33–34, 36, 4...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction: The Rubble
• One: Giving Things Their Proper Names: The Restoration of Truth-Telling
• Two: Except the Lord Build the House: Restoring a Sense of Beauty
• Three: A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Baste: Restoring the School
• Four: Man by Nature Desires to Know: Rebuilding the College
• Five: Repudiating the Sexual Revolution: Restoring Manhood
• Six: Restoring Womanhood: Building Homes, Not Houses
• Seven: Work While It Is Yet Day: Making Good Things Again
• Eight: Playing Upon the Waters: Bringing Play Back to Life
• Nine: Idiots No More: Recovering the Polis
• Ten: Pilgrims, Returning Home
• About the Author
• Index